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The 2nd project

meeting was held in8 Dimotiko ScholeioNeas Smyrnis, Ath-ens, Greece, from19 to 23/2/2011 and

the third one in A

Demotiko SxoleioAradippou, Cyprusfrom 23 to26/2/2011. Bothmeetings were very

successful!

Meeting in Greece

Danish school

2

3

Belgian school 5

Cypriot school 7

Greek school 10

Italian school 12

Polish school 14

Portuguese school

Romanian school 20

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PROJECT MEETINGS IN GREECEAND CYPRUS

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GO CLEAN, ACT NOW!

MARCH 2011Issue 2

Outside the NewAcropolis Museum.

At AradippouSchool



The 2nd project meeting washeld in the 8 DimotikoScholeio Neas Smyrnis, Ath-ens, Greece, from 19 to23/2/2011. It was a verysuccessful meeting with a lotof events and happenings.

On the first day of themeeting, the students wel-comed the guests with Greeksongs and they also sang thetwo project songs written bythe Belgian and Cypriot part-ners. Next the teachers ofthe partner schools spentthree teaching periods with

the Greek students. They

presented their schools and

towns, talked to the stu-dents about environmentalproblems and made newthings with trash. One of theclasses had also a chat meet-ing with the Italian school.

When lessons finished, the

partners put their own artis-tic work on the fresco thathas been painted on a wall ofthe school and planted all to-gether an olive tree in theschool small garden.

In theevening ofthe sameday, theGreek stu-dents per-formed ashort playabout the

forest anda dance

about sea pollution. Theevent closed with traditionaldances by the mothers'dance group and dinner of-fered by the teachers andthe parents.

The teachers of the partner

schools had also the chanceto visit the Acropolis andthe New Museum, walk in thestreets of Plaka and have ashort tour in the centre ofAthens and in Nea Smynri.

GO GREEN, GO CLEAN, ACT NOW!

2ND PROJECT MEETING IN 8 DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIONEAS SMYRNIS ,ATHENS, GREECE



Birds made of Christmas-gift-paper and other left-overthings.

The 4th class has drawn andmade oil-paintings of birds, andthey have made linocuts ofbirds. At last we collected left-over things from Christmas,which we used to make fantasy-

birds.

what means with more CO2 inthe atmosphere, why it is

windy, where the rain comesfrom etc. How does a warmerclimate effect the earth? Howsun cells and windmills work,making experiments and smallconstructions.

In nature/science classes in5th grade, we have worked with

climate, what is changing andmaybe why. What can we do,

what could be the solutions?

The children have made experi-ments to see for themselves

Nature/science classes

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SENNELS SKOLE, DENMARK



In 4th grade we have worked withwater and water supplies. Whatdoes it take to have clean water,what do we do with waste water,how can it be cleaned? We bor-rowed a small ”town” made by thecompany ”Grundfoss”, where weworked (and playedJ) with water

supply, water pumps, water tower,cleansing station etc.

How much water do we all use in

our daily whereabouts and indi-rectly in what we buy, what is pro-

duced for ourdaily needsand pleasure?We have madeexperimentsabout whatdifference itmakes if ice

melts, if wa-ter is warmer,etc.

household do to begreener? Does it affect

the build of the house?Wind power – How does it

work? How much are weusing it?

Wave energy - What is waterpower? How does it work?What is the future for

waves as an energy source?

Solar heating – What is SolarHeating? How does it

work? How much are weusing it?

Our 6th grade has studied themeasures that have been taken to

make our local community a more“green” commune.

The 23 children have been dividedinto 8 groups working with differ-ent subjects:

The school – Which measureshave been taken, in ourschool, to cutback on useof electricity, water and

heating?

A household - What can a

District heating system –What is supplying the

heat? How do the keep itclean?

Biomass – What is Biomass?How does it work?

Recycling – Why do we recy-cle? How do we recycle?What happens to our

waste, when we recycle?

After a period of 8 weeks thegroups showed their work in a

PowerPoint.By Jytte Gill

Water and water supplies

Caption describing picture or

graphic.

In 1st grade we looked at paper,paper production and what is papermade of. Why is it important to

recycle paper?

We have just started a theme ongarbage. You will hear more aboutthis in the next e-journal.

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Paper



(a small theater company visitedour school to act this play forour children)

Waldo receives a letter from his

aunt Wendy. She is really upsetbecause she read in the newsparerabout the bad condition of theEarth. Aunt Wendy asks if Waldowill start an expedition toinvestigate if the rumours aboutthe climate changes are

true. Waldo takes the children

from the first till the sixth classalong on a journey through theworld, to see and discuss what wecan do the help the earth. (16december 2010)

D-Day: 1 April ! (2performances)

* Various dances are tobe learned: classes 4, 3,

2 and 1.

* Decoration: teachers,

parents, the localtheatre company .

* D-Day: 1 April ! (2performances).

* Reading the screenplay by thechildren of the 5th and 6th class

* Casting: assignment of the roles

* Distributing of the tasks/responsibilities among theteachers.

* Rehearsing of the screenplayfrom January till the end ofMarch.

* The choir learns to sing thesongs: classes 4, 3, 2 and 1.

* Various dances are to be learned:

classes 4, 3, 2 and 1.

* Decoration: teachers, parents,the local theatre company .

SINT JAN BERCHMANSSCHOOL VIVERSEL ,BELGIUM

3. Start of the preparations for the musical “Time’s up”

your back

-Drink healthy tap water

-And use your bicycle ! Don’t takethe car.

-Don’t bring plastic litter to

school, use a biscuit tin (breadbox)

-Sort out litter in the proper way,the red box is for glass

-Plastic, metal and drinking bricks

are PMD

-Put them in the blue box

-Waste of vegetables, fruits andgarden belong in the green box

-The rest you can put in the black

box.

Now our children are making acraftswork about this “greencharter” to make it an “eye-

catcher”, a statement.

Some rules about environmetal-friendly behaviour were writtendown in a "green charter", inconsultation with our students.This charter is written in rhyme,as a poem, and therefore difficultto translate literally.

Content of the charter:

-Save energy, so put out thatlight !

-And please, close the door behind

2. Green Charter (January 2011)

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1. Theaterplay: "Waldo'sworld is getting warmer"



All children wore an extra thicksweater to enable the school tolower the heating system. Soless energy, less CO2

(This to remind the anniversary ofthe Kyoto protocol)

We started our day

with gymnastics on theplayground to warm upbefore going into theclasses.


Children also got a cup of hotchocolate milk during the break.

Drink tap water and reduce litter.

By stimulating the drinking of tap water, we try to reduce the transportation of water which includes lesstrains, trucks, refrigerators … which means less CO2 in the air.

We also try to avoid litter by reducing the amount of plastic bottles and tetra bricks.Our school has the ambition to become a ‘tap water only’- area as soon as possible.

All our students receive a bottle (sponsored by the company of Tap Water) which they bring to school everyday, filled with tap water.

* urinoirs with sensors

* toilets with possibility of reduced flushing

* basins with sensors

16 February 2011: ThickSweaters Day

22 March 2011: Tap Water Day

Measures to save water, taken by the schoolboard:

By Koen Beerten and Rita Maes



The first project meeting was held

in Iasi, Romania, in early November

2010. The second project meeting

took place in Greece and in Cyprus

from 19th to 26th of February

2011. Our school hosted 19 partici-

pants from five partner schools.

The hospitality program was rich

in activities inside and outside theschool. The purpose of the visit

was to present the work that has

been done in the context of the

program by the partner schools

and to get to know our country, its

history and traditions, and its peo-

ple.

On Shrove Thursday our school

welcomed the guests with a brief

ceremony which included songs,

drama, and traditional dances. Af-terwards, the guest – teachers

presented their country and their

school in the classrooms and en-

joyed playing traditional games

with us in the school yard. The

feast and dance that followed

completed a wonderful day.

A DEMOTIKO SXOLEIO ARADIPPOU,CYPRUS


Visit to Cyprus

Group photo of all participants in front of school

Welcome ceremony with flags Dance from the welcome ceremony




Touring the school and visiting all classes

Teaching sessions in the classes. Dancing Romanian dance

Eating in the yard, playing traditional games and dancing Cypriot dances.



In the evening, the Aradip-

pou Municipality and the

School Board hold a recep-

tion for our guests at a tav-

ern where they had the op-

portunity to enjoy Cypriot

meze and to dance tradi-

tional dances.

and were briefed on the habitat of

the salt lake at Tekke. For our

visitors the most exciting experi-

ence of all was the visit to the

Monastery of Kykkos and their

stay in the mountains.

The Parents’ Association of our

school gave a reception in Platres

where everyone said goodbye since

on the following day our guests

departured for their countries.

The following days were devoted

to sightseeing attractions of our

country. Our guests saw our village

and visited the church of St. Luke

and the Kaimaklioti folklore mu-

seum.

We also went on a tour at the Cas-

tle of Larnaca, St. Lazarus church,

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Patrizia in love with Cyprus!!!

Commemoratives and souvenirswere awarded from all stake-

holders.

By Panikkos Xiourroupas



Our school hosted the 2nd project

meeting from 19 to 23/2/2011.

Before the project meeting, stu-

dents of all classes looked for in-

formation about the partner coun-

tries, made posters and flags.

November: A poster was put on a

wall of the classroom pointing to

the recycling bin. All pupils throw

in it used paper.

December: The students always

remember to switch off the lights

during breaks and to water the

flowers they keep in pots in their

classroom.

January: They worked on endan-

gered species and found out infor-

mation about them. They also made

a collage with pictures and paint-

ings.

February: Saving water month –They have learned how to save wa-

ter when they wash their hands

and teeth.

that lived in it saved it

from being burnt down.

They also visited with

the 5th grade the Bo-

tanical Gardens and

the Environmental Edu-cation Centre of our

area.

The students are working on the

forest. They have read books

about the trees growing in Greek

forests and the animals that live in

them. They made paintings and

during the project meeting in our

school they acted out a play about“The emerald forest” which was in

danger and all trees and creatures

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GO GREEN, GO CLEAN, ACT

A class

B class The 2nd class is working on the olive

tree. The olive tree is typical of

Greece and the olive oil is very nu-

tritious.

First the students walked around

the school and observed the

branches, leaves and the olive oils

of the olive trees that are growing

there. They planted an olive tree in

a big pot and that tree was later

planted by the partner teachers in

the small yard of our

school during the meeting in

Athens. The students also

drew olive trees, watched vid-

eos about the cultivation of

the tree and the production

of olive oil, read fairy tales

and poems about it and solved

crosswords, puzzles, anec-

dotes, etc. They also wrote

down old recipes and sayings.

C class



Litter and recycling

First the students read a fairytale about making compost and

watched videos about litter and

recycling. They also read bro-

chures and newspaper articles

about recycling . They were shown

how to separate litter for recy-

cling and recycled their own litter

in the recycling bin which is just

outside our school. They solvedcrosswords and answered Right/

False questions. They made post-

ers and coasters using old, useless

CDs, glue and paper cut from

magazines and leaflets.

of the air, which is due to the

ships coming into and leaving theport, as well as the noise pollution.

Finally, they discussed about the

consequences that the works that

take place on the ships cause to

the sea.

The 5th and 6th classes had two

chats with the Cypriot partner

school and one with the Belgian

school.

The students of the 6th class havecollected information from the

internet as well as newspapers and

magazines about sea pollution, dis-

cussed about it and made posters.

They visited the port of Pireas and

saw pictures of it, past & present,

observed in the microscope small

creatures that live in the Greek

seas and then walked around the

port. They calculated the pollution

They also visited with the 3rd

grade the Botanical Gardens and

the Environmental Education Cen-

tre of our area. In the first

visit they saw a lot of trees

and plants and were informed

about their cultivation.

During their visit in the Envi-

ronmental Education Centre

they watched videos about

forests and the ways to pro-

tect them and then they

walked on the mountain of Ymitos

and were informed about the

plants and trees that grow there.The students collected informa-

tion from the internet as well as

newspapers and magazines about

the various types of forests and

their flora and fauna, the dangers

we face in Greek forests, dis-cussed about them and made a

poster using various materials, pa-

per, buttons, feathers etc. During

the project meeting they danced a

dance about sea pollution.

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D class

E class

F class

By Stavroula Makaronopoulou



Hello! It’s nice to see you again!

We’ve got many wonderful experi-ences from our second and third

project visits to Greece and Cy-prus! We should talk about thegreat hospitality received by ourschool partners, and about thebeautiful and interesting places

we’ve visited, but there wouldn’tbe enough room on this e-journal.So we decided to tell you aboutour enjoyable lessons we had in

Athens’ and Aradippou’s Schools.The children have just welcome usand spent time playing, sometimeseating (!) and talking about recy-cling things. The students took

plasticobjects

andscis-

sors, weteach-ers tookour pic-

tures of recycled things. Alltogether we tried to make them

real!

Wealsohad anice

chatvia

SCUOLA SECONDARIA DI PRIMO GRADO“G. BORSI”, ITALY

GO GREEN, GO CLEAN,

… and welcoming ceremonies/shows!

A’ Aradippou Primary School

It was just fantastic!

Actually we experienced many sur-prises… such as carnival parties…



which will be shared with theirEuropean friends asap. Hereyou have some drafts about

“biomes”.

As far as our everyday projectwork/lessons are concerned, ourstudents in Livorno are attending

CLIL (Content and Language Inte-grated Learning) modules in whichthey are taught environmental sci-

ence and English language.

They are now studying “biomes”and are setting a theme crossword

Everyday project work/lessons

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That’s all for now. See you next issue, after our visit toThisted, Denmark, with more amazing experiences and factsto tell you all.

Salve, ragazzi!

Siamo di ritorno da una magnifica doppia visita in Grecia e Cipro. Abbiamo fatto lezione

di riciclaggio, costruendo oggetti con bottiglie di plastica usate. Abbiamo anche

chattato con una nostra classe in Italia! E poi abbiamo partecipato a cerimonie, giochi e

danze popolari con i ragazzi delle scuole partner di Atene e di Aradippou.

Adesso i nostri alunni di seconda stanno lavorando ad un modulo CLIL (Content and

Language Integrated Learning) che li porterà a scoprire i “biomi”, con i relativi esempi

di vita. Alla fine creeranno un cruciverba in inglese che manderanno poi agli amici delle

scuole partner.

Alla prossimo numero dell’e-journal, allora, quando vi racconteremo le bellissime cose

che avremo scoperto a Thisted, in Danimarca.

Vai col verde!

By Patrizia Salutij



In February and March we have

organised many ecological competi-

tions based on handicraft and mak-

ing posters.

Here are the examples:

- Making a soft toy or a figure

of a green eco-boy

- Making a spring decoration

out of reusable materials

(paper, glass and plastic)and natural materials

- Posters “Save the Earth” and

“Animals protected in Po-

land”

during their English lessons

(eg. Water, pollution,

waste, river, sea, ocean,

lake, waterfall, stream,

fish, coral reef). We also

announced a competition

“Become an ecoist!” We

installed a green box. If astudent does something

eco-friendly (eg. Close the

On the 22nd of March we cele-

brated the World’s Water

Day – on that day everyone

was supposed to wear blue

colours. There was an exhi-

bition of posters and infor-

mation about this day and

some prompts how to savewater. The students

learned “water” vocabulary

tap, turns the computer

off while not working etc,)

he or she writes that on a

small piece of paper, signs

his/her name, tells the

class and throws the note

into the green box. In may

we are going to open thebox and check who is the

best ecoist in our school.

SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA NR 20 IN BYDGOSZCZ,

POLAND

World’s Water Day

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- To organize a street, green

parade,

- To organize a trip to the

sewage station to see how it

works

- To record our Comenius song

-To make Easter decoration

out of rubbish and sell them

during the parents assembly in

April

- To send Easter cards to all

the partners

- To go to the national park

and conduct some tests to

check water in the Baltic

sea

Our future plans

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By Ewa Nawrocka



These are some activities we have been doing since

Christmas:

Students wearing recycling bins -7ºC

AGRUPAMENTO VERTICAL DE ESCOLAS

DIOGO CÃO, PORTUGAL

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Students cleaning the school playgrounds and gardens- class 6ºI

Visiting a wind farm in Marão mountains- classes 6ºG and 7ºA

Carnival parade



students from kindergarten wearing costumes students wearing hand me gownsmade out of agriculture sacs

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we are growing vegetablesin kindergartens

Planting trees in a primary school on 21st March




Kindergarten students making

natural fertilizer

Kindergarten kid working

with recycled materials

A lecture with the Town Hall

representative of the Envi-

ronment Department -9ºB

A wind turbine made with

recycled materials-6ºG

Paintings on canvas made by

students-6ºG

Meteorology day exhibition 7ºA

Wind turbine made with

recycled materials-6ºG

Paintings on canvas made

by students -6ºG

Meteorology day exhibition

7ºA

Recycling in kindergarten- we made poems, songs and hats made out from

the bread bags



Our Comenius «corner» with updated information to all community

from different levels have joined us

and come up with some new ideas.

Here are some of the most interestingactivities:

- Some students attending the 6th

and 7th grades invited a uni-

versity teacher to come to

school and give a lecture on

renewable energies;

-The same students visited a wind

farm in Marão mountains;-A group of students is cleaning

the school playgrounds,

- 9th grade students invited the

Town Hall representative of

the Environment Department

to come to school, who is go-

ing to send new recycling bins

to school;

- Kindergarten and primary school

students are growing vegeta-

bles at school using natural

fertilizer made at school- All students celebrated the

World Day of the Forests

planting trees, giving out

trees and plants, offering

leaflets and book markers

- We finished and recorded our

song and made a videoclip.

- We booked and start to organizea class exchange (17 students

and 3 teachers) with the Pol-

ish school (13th -19th June).

We have tried to follow the

schedule with the planned activities

and we’ve been successful so far! Sowe did a lot of research work about

renewable energies and presented the

information to our school mates

through PowerPoint presentations; we

recorded and took pictures of some of

our daily “green tasks” such as switch-

ing off the lights, saving water while

brushing the teeth, using the bus orshare lifts (carpooling) to come to

school, recycling. In order to show all

these pictures and films we did some

PowerPoints and Movie Maker presen-

tations. We also started the diction-

ary with environmental words and we

celebrated the meteorology day (23rd

March).

A lot of students and teachers

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By Joao Pena Gil



• The project started in our

school at the beginning of Septem-

ber 2010, establishing teachers

and classes of the project team.

Periodically, teachers participated

in working meetings in Rediu

School to discuss and to evaluate

activities planned or carried out

and final products.

• During the festivity at the

beginning of the new school year,

students and their parents were

informed about this project, part-

ner countries, main activities and

final products to be done after

next two years.

• After we realised the na-

tional (local) part of the question-

naire, we applied it both with the

international part, received from

coordinators, on classes at primary

and lower secondary levels from

Rediu and Horlesti schools. The

results were sent by e-mail to co-ordinator school from Denmark.

chose 10 logos that were exposed

on the international exhibition.

• In October we realised a

Calendar for the next year: 2011

with artcrafts handmade by our

students with natural and recycla-

ble materials.

• Logos contest was held in

both two locations (Rediu and Hor-

lesti) during the October month.

Students have made various logos

using different techniques. They

presented them in class, and every

four logos were chosen from each

class to make an exhibition. Follow-

ing this contest, a special jury

• Preparing for the 1st Pro-

ject Meeting in our schools, we

realised Comenius corners in Rediu

and Horlesti schools with maps,

flags and pictures representing all

partner countries and institutions.

SCOALA CU CLASELE I-VIII REDIU, ROMANIA


on 18th September (monitoring

the water quality on Cacaina

river), the World Peace Day on

21st of September (planting

trees within the ENO - Environ-

ment Online - project, aniEARN network), and on 25th of

September 2011 – within the

national project

‘Let’s Do It, Romania!’ –

the Cleaning Day (collecting

waste materials by students

from both Rediu and Horlesti

villages). Children involved were

from primary and lower-secondary levels.

Other activities which took place

in September in Horlesti village

were dedicated to celebrate the

Alimentation’s Day (on 16th of Sep-

tember 2010 students learnt

about healthy foods and vitamins),

the World Water Monitoring Day



• To maintain a fresh air we

organized activities as planting

trees conducted in two stages. In

the first stage, together with the

teacher of biology, students have

planted trees on a vacant lot in

Breazu village (Marzuchevici for-

est) and in the second stage, to-

gether with our European part-

ners; we planted trees in the

school yard in Horlesti village

(during the 1st project meeting in

• Preparing for the Christ-

mas, we made and sent Christmas

cards to our partner schools. Also,in December, with recyclable ma-

terials, our students realised popu-

lar masks and costumes for tradi-

tional customs during the winter

holiday and students organised a

used toys lottery to reuse them.

gether through songs, dances and

planting trees. Also, we exchanged

information about cultures, educa-

tional systems and en-

vironment stats with all

partner countries. At

the coordinators meet-ing, teachers estab-

lished next activities

of our project.

• At the beginning of No-

vember month, we hosted the 1st

Project Meeting with all partners

in both locations: Rediu and Hor-

lesti schools. We were very pleas-

ant to host teachers from so many

countries in our institution. Theyhad teaching sessions with our stu-

dents to present their own coun-

try, region and school, and to de-

bate some subjects according the

project theme. We celebrated to-

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• In January 2011 our stu-

dents did learn the official song of

our project: ‘Go, Go Green!’ both

versions – in English and mothertongue.

• Students and teachers

from our schools were involved in

chat session with our partners

from Denmark and Italy.

• Also, we posted multimedia mate-rials and information regarding ourproject on Internet (both into ourschool website: http://

rediuschool.wordpress.com and onthe official website of our pro-

ject:http://2clean2green.wordpress.com).

the waters from our region (World

Water Monitoring Day 2011).

Also, we participated in the

‘Water Champion’ contest

(after our involvement in this

action in 2010).

• For the 26th of March,

students and teachers from

our schools we’ll participate in

‘Earth Hour’ international ac-

tion, verifying to be turned off

all lights and all electronical

equipments during all night

long.

• During March month, we

involved our students in ‘U2Energy’

European contest completing a

first questionnaire and participat-

ing in some special lessons about

reducing the energy consumption

both at home and in our school.Students from Horlesti School did

colored some pictures.

• On the 22nd of March, pu-

pils celebrated World Water Day

learning at school about the impor-

tance of water in our daily lifes,

the water cycle in the nature and

the necessity of protecting and

recycling waters. We have got en-

rolled into a new international cam-

paing of monitoring the quality of


• In February 2011, according

with the tip of the month

(‘recycling papers’), we realised

handmade artcrafts and cardsto celebrate a Romanian tradi-

tional custom on 1st March

(‘Martisorul’ - ‘TheLittle March’)

and we collected papers from

our students to be recycled.

Also, we started an educational

program for students aged 9-10

years (from 3rd and 4th grades in

rediu and Horlesti schools) to

learn about selective collecting.

By Daniel Lozba –Stirbuleac



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